New publication out in Journal of Raman Spectroscopy

Congratulation to Fatema, Sara, Samanali and Keith who, with researchers in Zoology and at Landcare, recently published a paper entitled, “Lake snow caused by the invasive diatom Lindavia intermedia can be discriminated from different sites and from other algae using vibrational spectroscopy”  in the Journal of Raman Spectroscopy (http://doi.org/10.1002/jrs.6161).

This study showed how Raman spectroscopy could be used to detect lindavia (lake snow) from other species and identify the lakes from which the lindavia had been sampled.  This is part of a larger project looking at monitoring lakes with optical techniques.